Our View: UI must rethink info sharing on gun permits

9:01 PM,
Mar. 1, 2013

Written by

Press-Citizen Editorial Board
| Our View

Two decades ago, it must have made perfect sense for the University of Iowa and the Johnson County Sheriff's Department to begin sharing information on individual students, faculty or staff members who were applying to obtain or to carry a gun.

After all, the broader UI community had just gone through the horror of having a recent Ph.D. graduate kill one student and four faculty members on campus before turning his gun on himself. It's unclear whether such a sharing of information would have stopped Gang Lu from being able to obtain his weapon in 1991, but local university and law enforcement ...